Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenAI

OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI is considering granting new voting rights to its nonprofit board in a move that could help it fight an unsolicited takeover bid from Elon Musk, the Financial Times reported last night.
OpenAI, Elon Musk, Business, Technology, Corporate Governance
10 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 0 comments
OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI is considering granting new voting rights to its nonprofit board in a move that could help it fight an unsolicited takeover bid from Elon Musk, the Financial Times reported last night.
OpenAI, Elon Musk, Takeovers, Business, Technology
6 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 1 comments
Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today" (twitter.com)
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Twitter, Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI
138 points by htk 2 days ago | 171 comments
Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report (techcrunch.com)
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled widespread speculation online.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, Death, Suicide
3 points by SanjayMehta 5 days ago | 1 comments
The danger of relying on OpenAI's Deep Research (economist.com)
Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Economics
40 points by ohskylab 5 days ago | 59 comments
Autopsy: No foul play in OpenAI whistleblower's suicide (sfstandard.com)
An official autopsy has found no evidence of foul play in the death of 26-year-old Suchir Balaji.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, News, Suicide
22 points by necubi 6 days ago | 6 comments
Elon Musk says he'll drop his $97B bid for OpenAI if it remains a non-profit (theguardian.com)
Elon Musk says he will abandon his $97.4bn offer to buy the non-profit behind OpenAI if the ChatGPT maker drops its plan to convert into a for-profit company.
Business, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Elon Musk, ChatGPT
6 points by sambeau 7 days ago | 2 comments
OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has eliminated a page on its website that used to express its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
OpenAI, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Technology
106 points by gpi 7 days ago | 147 comments
Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms (techcrunch.com)
In a court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for Elon Musk said the billionaire will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if the ChatGPT maker’s board of directors “preserve the charity’s mission” and halt the company’s conversion to a for-profit.
Elon Musk, OpenAI, AI, Nonprofits, Business
3 points by LorenDB 7 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI's GPT-5 Bait and Switch (vincentschmalbach.com)
On February 12th, Sam Altman dropped what seemed like a bombshell announcement about OpenAI's roadmap for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5. In a detailed Twitter thread, he said OpenAI will merge their O-series and GPT models into a unified system, announcing that GPT-4.5 (internally called Orion) would be their final non-chain-of-thought model, and that GPT-5 would integrate O3 capabilities rather than releasing O3 as a standalone model.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, GPT-4, GPT-5
38 points by vincent_s 7 days ago | 20 comments
OpenAI Model Spec (openai.com)
To deepen the public conversation about how AI models should behave, we’re sharing the Model Spec, our approach to shaping desired model behavior.
Generative AI, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Model Behavior
12 points by batterylake 8 days ago | 4 comments
OpenAI Roadmap Update for GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 (twitter.com)
Generative AI, OpenAI, AI, Roadmap
58 points by gigaArpit 8 days ago | 13 comments
Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk's Bid to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff (wired.com)
Sam Altman is leaving no room for doubt about his views on an Elon Musk-led bid to take control of OpenAI. In a letter to OpenAI staff Monday, the CEO put the words “bid” and “deal” in scare quotes and said the startup’s board has no interest in the offer.
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Leadership, Technology, OpenAI
10 points by papertowels 9 days ago | 0 comments
Matt Levine: Sure Elon Musk Might Buy OpenAI (bloomberg.com)
In the spring of 2022, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter Inc. for about $44 billion. Twitter’s board of directors met with its investment bankers to discuss exactly one question: Was Musk’s offer more than Twitter was worth otherwise (on its own or in a competing deal)? The bankers and board concluded that Twitter was not going to do better for its shareholders than Musk was offering, so they took Musk’s deal.
Business, Finance, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Twitter
8 points by samvher 9 days ago | 1 comments
Musk's Bid for OpenAI Puts Them in a Difficult Situation (innovationnation.blog)
People are missing why Musk just bid for OpenAI and even the headlines are wrong about what he bid for.
OpenAI, Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence, Business
3 points by gsibble 9 days ago | 1 comments
Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports (yahoo.com)
A consortium of investors led by billionaire Elon Musk is offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Finance, OpenAI, Elon Musk
15 points by abrichr 10 days ago | 5 comments
Inside OpenAI's $14M Super Bowl debut (theverge.com)
OpenAI just made its Super Bowl debut with a 60-second spot that positions AI alongside humanity’s greatest innovations.
Super Bowl, Advertising, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence
26 points by minimaxir 11 days ago | 10 comments
An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment (fortune.com)
A few months before his death, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji spoke out against his former employer, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Whistleblowers, Death
38 points by trymas 11 days ago | 2 comments
ChatGPT maker OpenAI taking claims of data breach 'seriously' (the-independent.com)
OpenAI is investigating reports of a potential data breach affecting millions of user accounts, but says it has yet to find evidence supporting the claims.
Data Security, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence
4 points by kordlessagain 12 days ago | 0 comments
SoftBank set to invest $40B in OpenAI at $260B valuation (cnbc.com)
Investment, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, SoftBank
4 points by rntn 13 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati's startup (yahoo.com)
OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s stealth startup after departing Anthropic just five months after signing on, two sources familiar with the matter told Fortune.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Business
31 points by mgh2 13 days ago | 19 comments
OpenAI Deep Research is genuinely useful – Gary Marcus (twitter.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Opinion
6 points by Jimmc414 14 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI Sales Agent Demo (twitter.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Sales, Demo
58 points by pr337h4m 15 days ago | 39 comments
OpenAI Co-Founder John Schulman Leaves Rival Firm Anthropic (bloomberg.com)
John Schulman, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI, has left rival firm Anthropic, a job he held since the summer.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Anthropic, Personnel Moves
8 points by granzymes 15 days ago | 0 comments
The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far (hollywoodreporter.com)
The paper, buoyed by its 11 million-plus paid subscribers, is one of the few news outlets that can afford to engage in yearslong litigation with Big Tech.
Legal Battles, OpenAI, Big Tech, Media
84 points by marban 15 days ago | 98 comments
OpenAI deep research but it's open source (huggingface.co)
Yesterday, OpenAI released Deep Research, a system that browses the web to summarize content and answer questions based on the summary.
OpenAI, Research, Open Source
6 points by equilibrium 16 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit (theregister.com)
Updated Elon Musk's legal grudge against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft could soon be over – again – if a California judge responds favorably to the latest filings in the case.
OpenAI, Microsoft, Lawsuit, Elon Musk
12 points by rntn 16 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI's Nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi [video] (youtube.com)
OpenAI, Raspberry Pi, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Video
3 points by mgh2 16 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI announces SoftBank partnership as fallout from DeepSeek continues (semafor.com)
OpenAI announced a joint venture with Japan’s SoftBank on Monday, with the investment giant spending $3 billion a year to use OpenAI software, in an apparent change of strategy following DeepSeek’s unexpected rise.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Business, Partnerships
18 points by thunderbong 16 days ago | 17 comments
OpenAI: Out of Ideas (wq6e.com)
Today, OpenAI announced their latest “advancement” in the form of Deep Research - a system that they claim is able to perform “multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks”. They say it takes just 5-30 minutes to complete research tasks that would take humans “many hours”.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Research, Technology
64 points by robbiet480 17 days ago | 25 comments